ProAssurance CEO Stan Starnes and former Gov. Albert Brewer to chair $15 million capital campaign at Cumberland School of Law

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – ProAssurance CEO Stan Starnes and former Alabama governor Albert Brewer will co-chair Cumberland School of Law’s new capital campaign, the law school at Samford University announced.

Brewer is a professor of law and government at the law school, from which Starnes graduated in 1972.

The public phase of the campaign, called “Pride. Promise. People,” will run from the fall of this year through 2014 and has a goal of raising $15 million, the school said in a prepared statement. The funds are to be used for academic programs, scholarships and faculty support.

Starnes said that his education at Cumberland was key to his professional success.

“It is time to reach out like never before to those who can to give or give more to support an accessible, exceptional legal education,” he said in a prepared statement.

Gov. Brewer said the cost of law school is a burden to many potential students and a burden to recent graduates.

“At the same time, securing the academic programs and superior faculty to support those students remains vital,” he said.

Graduates of the law school include two U.S. Supreme Court justices, 11 governors from six states and Nobel Prize for Peace recipient Cordell Hull.